Referencing Styles

A guide to the reference styles used at the University of St Andrews

Referencing a Chapter in an Edited Book:

Book chapter references include:

  • Author(s) of chapter
  • Year
  • "Title of chapter"
  • Title of book (italicised)
  • Editor(s) of book
  • Place (only required for books published before 1900, or when there are different versions of a title published simultaneously in different locations, by the same publisher, where there are variations in content, or where publisher can't be ascertained)
  • Publisher

Ebook references include:

  • Author(s) of the chapter
  • Year
  • "Title of chapter"
  • Title of book (italicised)
  • Editor(s) of book
  • Place (only required for books published before 1900, or when there are different versions of a title published simultaneously in different locations, by the same publisher, where there are variations in content, or where publisher can't be ascertained)
  • Publisher
  • DOI (preferred) or URL

Fields marked in blue are only included where the source contains that information.

The in-text citation format is: (Chapter Author Surname Year, Page)

The reference list entry format is:

Chapter Author Surname, First Name. Year. "Title of Chapter." In Title of Book, edited by Editor First Name Surname. Publisher.

In-text citation:

(Shaughnessy 2005, 89)

Reference list entry:

Shaughnessy, Nicola. 2015. "Dancing with difference: moving towards a new aesthetics".  In Applied theatre: aesthetics, edited by Gareth White. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

In-text citation:

(Grieshaber and McArdle 2014, 112)

Reference list entry:

Grieshaber, Susan, and Felicity McArdle. 2014. "Ethical dimension and perspectives on play." In The Sage handbook of play and learning in early childhood, edited by Liz Brooker, Mindy Blaise, and Susan Edwards. Sage. https://doi: 10.4135/9781473907850.n10

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